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Dakin (to Irwin, his teacher): Do you really believe that, sir, or are you just trying to make us think? — Anthony Bennett
Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build. — Fred Brooks
The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is… — Fred Brooks
Successful software always gets changed. — Fred Brooks
The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the… — John Carmack
In a way, math isn't the art of answering mathematical questions, it is the art of asking the right questions, the questions that give you… — Gregory Chaitin
The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in. — Andrei Codrescu
Question authority; but, raise your hand first. — Alan Dershowitz
A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use.… — Edsger Dijkstra
John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how… — Edsger Dijkstra
...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For… — Edsger Dijkstra
We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and… — Edsger Dijkstra
Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where… — Edsger Dijkstra
Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in terms… — Andrea diSessa
The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible]. — Tom Duff
The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them. Now, however, time-sharing… — Robert Fano
Precise language is not the problem. Clear language is the problem. — Richard P. Feynman
When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way… — Richard P. Feynman
When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to… — Richard P. Feynman

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